Latest Free Tool: ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log

ConfigMgr PXE Boot Log displays PXE boot events in an easy-to-view format and provides a history of PXE boot attempts on a distribution point during a selected time period. The tool can also display any records that exist in ConfigMgr associated with a device based on its SMBIOS GUID.

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Month: February 2016

Quick one – inspired by today’s Power Tip on Powershell.com, I ran a comparison of different methods of getting data from WMI on a remote computer and the execution time of each. The results were interesting, with Get-CimInstance the clear winner. I retrieved the full property list for the Win32_Processor class from a remote computer […]

As a Configuration Manager administrator, from time to time I have to deploy an application where I need to notify the end-user of something before the installation begins. A recent example was a plugin for IE that would fail to install if Internet Explorer was running at the time. I can force-ably kill the running […]

Since Configuration Manager 2012, a scheduled task is created by the client installer that runs “CCMEval.exe” periodically to check that the client is healthy and all the components it depends on are functioning as they should be. A number of checks are performed and if anything is found amiss, the default setting is to attempt […]

Keeping your ConfigMgr clients healthy is an important task for an SCCM administrator. Here’s a SQL query that will find all devices in ConfigMgr that have been active in the last 7 days, but have either failed their CCMEval or have “unknown” status, ie no CCMEval results. I like to add SQL queries to PowerShell functions […]

I am pleased to release a new free GUI tool today to assist in troubleshooting Windows systems – the Reliability Viewer for Windows. It is based on the concept of the built-in Windows Reliability Monitor, but can be used to display data from both the local or remote systems, which the Microsoft tool cannot do. […]